The Coin Game: Ticket and Item Values (3/21/24) + A Few Tips&Tricks

I made a tracker of all of the prices and ticket values for the prizes in The Coin Game, and I wanted to share it here.

Please note that almost every prize item is the best $/ticket ratio when they are on Barry’s High Demand Board (the exceptions are the 500 ticket items, they are never the best value even when in demand). You can save/load to get the items you want on the board, but if you don’t like to do that then always use the board for the day to see what is best to sell.

The tl:dr of this is that for ticket prizes the Orange Fish Plush is the best value per ticket. If combined with it being on Barry’s High Demand Board they go for $61 for only 15k tickets. Otherwise carnival games are going to likely be the easiest quick profit you can make in The Coin Game.

Sections:

• Pawn Shop – Comprehensive List of all sell prices at Barry’s Pawn Shop.
• Arcades – List of each arcade, the prizes available, and the ticket value
• Recommended Ticket Games – My opinions on the best way to make tickets
• Carnival – List of each carnival game, the prizes available, and the best value per game

There are 4 items on Barry’s High Demand Board every day (2 Commons, 1 Prime, 1 Exotic) which Barry will pay double for.

I have separated each Arcade by the prizes they offer, but all tickets work towards all arcades, so you aren’t required to stay in the same arcade to buy prizes. The higher the Ticket Value (sorted lowest to highest) the more money you make per ticket.

Larry’s:

Billie’s:

UFO:

Mall:

I want to start this topic by just saying that this is all my opinions on what I find easiest/most profitable for obtaining tickets. If you have found a better system then please feel free to share in the comments on how you best obtain tickets. This is just to help people get a starting point of some machines that have good payouts.

The 2 coin pushers which give a bonus plush can be an easy way to make tickets (especially Popcorn Pete if you can get the timing down to add new cards) while getting the extra cash from the plush drops. The Dunko Plush is $52, while the Popcorn Pete Plush is $150 in addition to a big ticket bonus when you hit the plushes.

The Ticket Toboggan machine is one of the most profitable machines I have found but it does require some good timing. I have found my timing to be when the middle slot in between the bonuses (worth 30 or 25) is perfectly in the center is when I click. If you are able to consistently get the bonus timing the bonus usually averages over 1000 tickets for $1 a play.

Another very profitable machine but this one requires good reaction times to get consistently. At $2 a play for a 2000 bonus if you can hit all 50 this can really stack up tickets fast. However, if you find this one frustrating and cant consistently get the 50 hits its probably better to look elsewhere.

Wormhole is a pretty easy machine to get the timing on getting the jackpot hole almost every time. You get 4 balls per play and can easily get 600+ tickets every time once you have a good timing system.

I’m personally a big fan of the Skeet Shoot machine. I by no means have great aim, but i still find this machine to be very easy to get tickets from. Each target you hit is worth 10 tickets and if you get 42 or more targets in the time you get a bonus 500 tickets. I usually end up averaging 950 tickets a play. If you can consistently get over the 42 targets hit this is a great game to play.

My final one on this list is due to a glitch currently in the game. If you are someone who prefers to ignore glitches you can avoid this machine. Normally you would have to get all 50 balls into the cups within a small amount of time which requires some tight timing windows and can be frustrating when you miss just 1 or 2. However, this machine currently pays out a 500 ticket jackpot every time you play as long as you drop all 50 balls within the time limit. I’m sure this will get patched soon enough, but for now it can be a great way to stack up tickets without paying much attention to the game.

Since Carnival games have their own prize system I have separated each game by how much it costs to play, my perceived difficulty and credits per play. I have highlighted green the items that have the best value per game. I’ve seen a lot of people recommend balloon time since you can double pop balloons with each dart, but I’m rubbish at hitting the darts. I personally prefer to play Shoot the Star. My strategy is to shoot a line starting at each of the 5 star points and shooting in and then filling in any remaining spots after. The game feels very forgiving (the only times I have lost are when I don’t hit one of the star points, otherwise I usually see a bit of red in the middle and I still always win), and the Rasta banana is also worth $100 the most of any carnival item making it the best full inventory per trip.

I’ve seen other guides with similar data, but they were all outdated and I like to be able to look at all the available data so I created my own spreadsheets to track everything. I figure since I already made it I might as well make it available to anyone else that wants the information. This guide should contain every prize that you can get/sell to Barry’s, however it doesn’t include any prices related to trash, food and other non-arcade related items. I can always add it later if people want that, but it didn’t seem useful for what I was wanting to look at. If you see anything that I have entered incorrectly please let me know.

Thanks for taking the time to read my guide. Hopefully you can use this information to take back whats ours from those arcades.